Fridge unit eases pallet loading
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• A new type of Polarstream refrigeration unit from BOC Food Services Department— which gives 100 per cent use of payload space in the transporter—has been adopted by T. Wall and Sons (Meat and Handy Foods) Ltd. Mounted on the exterior of the front bulkhead instead of inside the container, the unit makes pallet loading easier as well as freeing more space for occupation by the goods themselves.
The firm moves 400 tons of frozen and chilled food a day, and the fleet of ten 16-ton BOC Polarstream refrigerated vehicles transport a large percentage of this. They are used for carrying sides of beef, lamb and bacon, as well as sausages and pies, between factories in Hayes, Willesden, Southall and Hyde, Cheshire.
By special request of its sales force, the firm is experimenting with five BOC miniPolarstream—a refrigeration unit which fits inside a 2-ton van. The frozen and chilled food market is estimated to have grown by 15 per cent last year, and the sales force want to be as well equipped as possible to take advantage of such growth. Current experiments are with split temperature loads.
Another new development in BOC Polarstream is the PS-302 system, designed to provide uniform refrigeration for tightlypacked respiring loads carried over long distances. The temperature is automatically maintained at a selected level by regulating the "amount of gas, as in all BOC Polarstream units. Forced circulation is provided continuously by a pneumatically powered axial flow fan. Air is forced across the upper cargo surface, down and along the side walls. It returns through the floor channels, thus providing an envelope of moving gas to minimize thermal gradients.
The PS-302 system has an internally mounted nitrogen storage container of 2,700lb capacity.
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